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Mars is the Fourth planet from the Sun and also the third largest terrestrial planet in our Solar System with a diameter of 6,792km which is roughly half of Earth’s. Mars also gets its reddish appearance from Iron Oxide (or rust) in its soil. It has an almost constant view of at least one of its two moons Phobos and Deimos. Phobos is quite small with a radius of 21km and is only 9,380km from Mars but Deimos on the other h